Not all of the pricing made sense: They were selling gorgeous NOS Hammarlund 300 pf log-scale variable caps for .95, but beat-to-hell removed-from-equipment military power transformers were marked - each. So like most everything else in the world, OEM is a mixed bag, but there's nothing like it in the Springs, and if you need that sort of stuff (and are willing to dig a little for it) I recommend it highly. On reading of my concept for poultry-flavored spiral notebooks, George Ewing sent me a reference to a little-known short essay by Edgar Allen Poe, entitled "Diddling," which is about scams favored by small-time con-men.… continue reading »